Brewing External resource
Mei Leaf
A London teahouse and the most-watched English-language tea channel — deep, well-sourced guides to every tea type, gongfu brewing and teaware.
Find on YouTubeTea video, curated
The video worth watching on Chinese tea
A working library of the channels, tastings and documentary that teach Chinese tea honestly — gongfu brewing, origin and farm footage, ceremony and reviews. Each entry links out to its maker; nothing here is ours yet.
Chinese tea only, in keeping with the rest of the constellation. Everything below is someone else's good work, gathered and vouched for — our own films will join as the centrepiece once they are shot.
Curated, not scraped
Every channel and video here was watched or checked by hand — no auto-filled lists, no filler.
Honest labelling
Each card is marked an external resource. Where we could not verify the exact link, it opens a YouTube search rather than a guessed URL.
Chinese tea first
Brewing, origin, ceremony and reviews centred on Chinese tea — the constellation invariant holds here too.
Our films are coming
This is the catalogue stage. Our own videos will be added later as the main feature, not squeezed in among these.
Catalogue
Channels, videos and one documentary
Filter by what you want to watch. Each entry opens on its own platform — a channel, a single video, or a search where the exact link was not confirmed.
Origin & farm External resource
Farmer Leaf
William and Yubai grow and process their own tea in Pu'er — rare first-hand footage of the plant, the harvest and the pressing.
Find on YouTubeReviews External resource
TeaDB
A Seattle duo, not a vendor — hundreds of short, candid sessions on pu-erh, ageing and storage, with honest verdicts.
Open resourceOrigin & farm External resource
Wuyi Origin
武夷岩茶 wǔyí yán chá
Cindy Chen's family has tended rock-tea gardens inside the Wuyishan cliffs for generations — processing and roasting shown up close.
Open resourceReviews External resource
Tea Angle
凤凰单丛 fènghuáng dān cōng
A Sydney tea store with a standout channel for oolong — deep tastings of Wuyi rock tea and Phoenix dan cong, plus China sourcing trips.
Find on YouTubeBrewing External resource
Wu Mountain Tea
Bright, beginner-friendly how-to guides for gongfu cha — one of the most-recommended starting points for the practice.
Find on YouTubeCeremony External resource
Gongfu brewing, eight teas side by side
An American who apprenticed in Beijing comedy brings warmth and humour to gongfu — this session brews eight teas one after another.
Open resourceReviews External resource
Tea Masters
Based in Taiwan since 1996 — twenty years of writing and video on Taiwanese oolong and pu-erh, from a serious collector's angle.
Open resourceOrigin & farm External resource
Yunnan Sourcing
An American settled in Kunming who has pressed pu-erh since 2009 — factory tours, pressing demos and origin walk-throughs.
Open resourceOrigin & farm External resource
Tea, made from scratch by hand
Cinematic Sichuan-countryside films made slowly and by hand — her tea-from-scratch videos are among the most-watched depictions of Chinese craft.
Open resourceOrigin & farm External resource
Dianxi Xiaoge
滇西小哥 diān xī xiǎo gē
Yunnan village cooking and seasonal harvest — tea leaf, mountain and a Dai-minority kitchen shown inside daily life.
Open resourceBrewing External resource
Gong fu cha — the complete guide
A Vancouver Chinatown teahouse keeping gongfu alive — Daniel Lui's complete, plain-language guide to brewing Chinese tea with skill.
Open resourceDocumentary External resource
Tea, the story of a leaf
茶，一片树叶的故事 chá, yī piàn shùyè de gùshi
CCTV's six-part series filmed across thirteen tea provinces and seven countries — the reference documentary on Chinese tea.
Find on YouTubeCeremony External resource
Gongfu tea ceremony, step by step
A short, watchable step-through of the gongfu ceremony — a clean visual reference for the sequence of pours.
Open resourceCeremony External resource
West China Tea
An Austin teahouse that teaches unhurried, everyday gongfu — approachable ceremony rooted in Chinese practice.
Find on YouTubeComing next
Our own films, as the centrepiece
The plan is not to compete with the makers above but to add to them. We are shooting our own tea video — real photography, no AI footage, no AI voice — brewing guides by tea class, origin visits and ceremony. When they are ready, they move to the top of this page as the main feature; the catalogue stays as the wider map.
Brewing by class
Gongfu guides for green, oolong, red, white, pu-erh and beyond, built on our own research corpus.
Origin and ceremony
Visits to gardens and workshops, and unhurried ceremony — filmed, never generated.
Embeddable across the constellation
One video component, reused by the sibling sites, instead of scattered one-off embeds.
About this catalogue
How to read it
This page is a shopfront, not a video host. It points you to people who make excellent Chinese-tea video and tells you plainly what each one is good for. We keep no tracking on the links and hotlink no thumbnails; a card is text and a link, so it loads fast and stays honest.
If a link has drifted or a channel has moved, that is the nature of an external catalogue — tell us and we will fix the card.